Method of making union suits.



W. MARLOW.

METHOD 0F MAKING UNION SUITS. APPLICATION FILED JULY 16,' 1913. 1,1 28,3432' UNITEDV sTATEs PATENT onirica.

Y WILLIAM'MRLOW, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNORTO STANDARDiIiNITTING- MILLS COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

`METHOD 0F MAKING UNION SUITS.

T0 all whom it may concern l Y Be it known that I, WILLIAM MARLOW, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inv Methods of Making Union Suits, of which the fol! lowing is a description.

In most knitting mills in which knit underwear is made, at least two sizes of circular knitting machines are in use; the larger size being used for the manufacture of tubes of material of suitablesize for the making of garments for adults, while the smaller size is used for the manufacture of tubes of knitted fabric of a size suitable for' smaller garments, such garments being adapted for use by young men and women, these sizes being known as young mens and -misses.

none at all for the misses sizes, thus neces-iA sitating a working of the larger machines to their full capacity and the remaining idle of the smaller machines.

The principal object of my invention is to produce a union suit so made that it may be made from the smaller tubes manufactured by the smaller machines adapted to be used in the making of the misses sizes so that in the case mentioned above, all of the machines both large and small may be used to manufacture the adult size garments. j

Other objects of my invention are to produce a garment which may be made with the fewest number of seams and pieces and may be easily and inexpensively put together and involves no more waste than would be occasioned by the use'of the larger machines.

Referring to the drawings which accompany this specification, I have shown in Figure l a back View of my improved union suit, at Fig. 2 a section of the two tubes from which Ait is formed, and at Fig. 3 a diagram showing the method of cutting lthe gussets used to form the insidg of the leg members.

In making my improved union suit, I take two of the small size tubes, as'shown at l and 2, Fig. 2, each of these tubes being one-half the width of the body portion i of the garment. I then slit these tubes Y Specication of Letters Patent. Appiication med muy 16, 1913. seriai N o. 779,248.

, Patented Feb. y16, 1915.

longitudinally throughout their length, making them of a length equal to the total length of the 4garment and join together the edges thus formed, thereby producing for part of the length *of the garment a tube equal to the width lof the body portion of the garment. This forms the body portion of the garment, the tubes being joinedA together by seam 3-4 '(Fig. 1) extending from the neck to about the waist and a corresponding seam on the front of the gar,- ment. From a fiat piece of material such as half a tube, I form gussets, as shown in Fig. 3. These gussets lhave a horizontal side 5, a vertical side 6, and an inclined side which is divided by the notch 7 into vtwo inclined sides 8 and 9. It will be seen that 'the only waste are the two triangular pieces 10 and 11. I then attach the gussets to the edges of the two tubesand to the body of the garment as follows, the vertical edge 6 is sewn to the edge 12 of the left-hand tube shown in Fig. l, the horizontal edge 5 is attached to the body of the garment at the waist bythe horizontal seam 13, thus forming a flap closing the back of the garment, the edge of which flap is formed by the inclined edge 9, which terminates at the crotch in notch 7. The inclined side 8 is attached The other gusset is attached to the right` hand tube in a similar manner and overlaps the gusset described above, thus forming a double thickness of material at the seat with overlapping flaps connected to the body of the garment at the waist, thus tending to keep the garment closed. It will also be seen that the garment is completely closed in front.

The garment thus formed consists of a body portion made of two slit tubes of material each one-half the total width of the body, each of which slit tubes is extended downwardly to form the outside of a leg member,y the inside of each leg member being formed by -a gusset which is provided with a flap adapted to overlap the other gussetv and be attached to the body of the garment. The number of seams is therefore reduced to a minimum and the manufacture of the garment is greatly simplified.. While I have only shown one vform of my invention, it is obvious that it may be modiied without departing from its spirit and l therefore do not intend to be confinedto the exact form shown and described.

What claim is:

rlhe method of making a union suit which consists in slitting two tubes each having one-half the width of the body portion of the garment longitudinally throughout their length, joining the edges of one tube to the edges of the other for part of their length to -orm the body portion, attaching gussets formed from a fiat piece of fabric having a horizontal top edge and an upper downwardly inclined edge therefrom with a vertical slit, the edges of which diverge to rncet the inclined upper edge, to form the inside of the leg with the horizontal porwiLLIAM Manilow.

Witnesses:

WALTER S. JONES, WILLIAM M. EARL. 

